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by Dylan Howard


  Apparently it was because there was one girl that came out and actually said something. I think she told her mom, and her mom brought it to the police’s attention. Then because Jeffrey Epstein had a bunch of names and phone numbers and stuff that he had in his possession, and I think they found something of that nature and that’s how they could find the girls. Because they told me that they found my name and my phone number in his house. They wanted to ask me some questions about what was happening there.

  I recently just listened to the recording from that day. I remember just sounding so terrified that I was in trouble. That I was so young, I was such a little girl still when I was saying stuff. I was like, “So he was masturbating.”

  You could tell I didn’t even really know the right words were to tell these men, these once again older men, that were recording me in a car, in a parking lot. That happened.

  Then I think the FBI sent a lady to come meet up with me and we spoke together as well in the parking lot of a hospital. She recorded our conversation. It was just her and I, then I redid the story.

  After I gave my statement to the Palm Beach police department and the FBI agent I was never contacted again by the law and by the justice system. I was never kept up to date as to what was going on.

  It’s like this really long process of literally nothing happening. It is like we’re talking about this guy, we have all this evidence of what he’s been doing and yet how many years has it been going on, and how long has literally nothing happened, nothing.

  After a yearlong investigation, police had completed interviews with dozens of girls like Michelle. Detectives even picked through Epstein’s trash and discovered incriminating messages on scraps of paper documenting phone calls.

  “She is wondering if 2:30 is OK . . . She needs to stay in school,” read one document obtained during the course of our investigation.

  Another slip of paper suggested that Epstein had had a bouquet of roses sent to one teen at her high school following a school performance.

  An Amazon packing slip addressed to Epstein that we obtained reveals he’d ordered some seriously disturbing reading material: Slavecraft: Roadmaps for Erotic Servitude, Training with Miss Abernathy: A Workbook for Erotic Slaves, and SM 101: A Realistic Introduction.

  Was his sexual exploitation confined to young girls? A piece of note paper obtained by cops and recovered by our team shows that someone jotted down the urls “TonyaWorld.com” and “Trannsvicious.aol.com.” The former is still live at the time of this writing, featuring “T-Girls from All Over the World,” “Ethnic SheMales,” “Thousands of SheMales,” and “Direct Contacts” for the models on the site.

  Armed with such details from their surveillance work, the police finally got the go-ahead to raid the home on El Brillo Way.

  A Palm Beach Police Department incident report obtained by the authors of this book describes the scene in Det. Joseph Recarey’s own words:

  As we entered onto the property, we encountered the house manager, Janusz Banasiak, who was in the guest portion of the house. . . . The members of the Police Department entered the house and announced we had a search warrant.

  Several interior decorators were located on the property. I spoke with Mark Zeff. . . . Mr. Zeff stated he is the designer for Mr. Epstein’s homes. He advised he was contacted in March of 2005 to do a complete overhaul on the house. He advised he was on the phone with Mr. Epstein when officers announced the search warrant. Mr. Epstein was then made aware of the search warrant. . . .

  I entered the residence and located two covert (hidden) cameras. The first camera was a covert wall clock in the garage area. I traced the wire behind the clock and removed the RCA wire and unplugged the camera. The other covert camera was located within a desk clock beside Epstein’s desk.”

  Detective Joseph Recarey had actually been inside Epstein’s home before: back on October 5, 2003, when Epstein accused “a former disgruntled houseman” of stealing money from the house. He described what his team expected to find in his October 18, 2005, Affidavit & Application for Search Warrant, obtained by this team: “I observed several covert cameras, which would capture and record images of anyone within the residence. Epstein had purchased covert cameras which were built in wall clocks and table clocks. These images were then downloaded onto a proprietary spyware software for later viewing.”

  Recarey noted that Epstein “told me that he had purchased a spy camera from a store on Okeechobee Blvd. and had set up the camera which was in a clock in his office.”

  Indeed, when they got permission and raided the home on October 20, 2005, they found a trove of files and recording materials. Evidence logs obtained by this team catalog the haul:

  12 phone message books, filled with names and messages from his famous friends

  3 file folders of similar messages, ripped off of pads

  1 bag of shredded paper, found in his office

  1 orange folder marked “Massages”

  More than 123 photographs

  4 VHS tapes

  2 CDs marked “Happy birthday”

  63 CDs

  1 DVD

  16 Zip CDs

  12 8mm video tapes

  5 memory cards, as would be used in a digital camera

  11 floppy disks

  1 zip drive

  3 computer CPUs

  1 Maxell CD-R

  They also found other items that hinted at the depravity the house had hosted:

  4 massage tables

  1 black framed photo of a nude girl

  1 green framed photo of a nude girl

  2 twin torpedo vibrators

  1 bottle of joy jelly

  3 X-rated videotapes: Sex In City, Eat in Janine, and I Love Lesbians Four

  Penis- and vagina-shaped soaps

  1 school transcript

  Still, something seemed off. Epstein’s pals, interior decorator and architect Douglas Schoettle were there when the raid occurred, and seemed unperturbed. The materials they managed to get their hands on weren’t a slam dunk for conviction. Some of Epstein’s recording devices and computers had been removed, cords left hanging when cops arrived. Had Epstein been tipped off?

  “The place had been cleaned up,” former detective Michael Reiter later told NBC News.

  Still, by May 2006, Detective Recarey believed the case was bulletproof.

  Recarey amassed a Probable Cause Affidavit filled with damning evidence against Epstein. The official document even included a description of Epstein’s distorted genitalia.

  “It was thick towards the bottom but was thin and small towards the head portion,” a victim said, calling it, “egg-shaped.”

  Another victim told cops it’s “like a teardrop.”

  “It’s really fat at the bottom and skinny at the top,” she continued, making reference to “some sort of birth defect on his thing.”

  But once the case got into the hands of the higher ups, the case did not proceed how the cops were expecting.

  According to Reiter, Epstein’s high-powered defense team, which included Kenneth Starr and Alan Dershowitz, seemed to know details about the cops’ case even before they emerged. (Starr was best known for heading an investigation of members of the Clinton administration; Dershowitz for serving on the legal “Dream Team” alongside Johnnie Cochran and F. Lee Bailey in the 1995 O. J. Simpson murder trial.)

  “We believed that the content of our probable cause affidavit eventually, some time after we presented it to the state attorney’s office, ended up with the defense attorneys,” Reiter said.

  “Because minute details that nobody else knew that were in those documents were being refuted and contrary information provided by the defense.”

  Furious, Reiter demanded that the state attorney, Barry Krischer, remove himself from the case. That didn’t go anywhere, so Recary brought the Department’s evidence to the FBI.

  When it became clear that the federal probe would encounter similar roadblocks, Reiter arranged a meet
ing with the prosecutor in charge of the case, US Attorney Alex Acosta: President Trump’s future secretary of labor.

  Acosta put on a good show. Reiter said, “I left that meeting thinking, ‘This guy hopefully is going to do his job.’”

  Reiter would be wrong.

  Epstein’s unassuming home on El Brillo Way in Palm Beach was the site of his worst abuses. (The Mega Agency)

  This photo of a young blonde girl flashing her bare rear end at the camera was found in Epstein’s Palm Beach home. This and other images from inside the home were captured during a 2005 Palm Beach police raid. (Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office)

  Epstein’s Palm Beach home featured several images of nude women. (Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office)

  Disembodied and immobile women were a common theme of the art pieces in Epstein’s Palm Beach home. (Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office)

  A hand-drawn portrait of Ghislaine Maxwell overlooked the infamous massage room. (Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office)

  The massage room was stocked with lotions and oils, and had a bathtub as well. (Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office)

  This screenshot from a Palm Beach police raid video shows the chilling “massager” and other devices alongside Epstein’s massage table. (Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office)

  Police found a note in Epstein’s trash directing his assistant to deliver a “bucket of roses” to a female student at Royal Palm Beach High School. (Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office)

  A phone message for Jeffrey Epstein, from Jean-Luc Brunel. (Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office)

  A phone message for Jeffrey Epstein, from Jean-Luc Brunel. (Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office)

  A photo of girls in a massage chain, found inside Epstein’s Palm Beach home. (Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office)

  Sex slave Victoria Roberts recorded her own personal nightmare in a secret diary. (American Media)

  Virginia Roberts’ diaries were later submitted as evidence to the court. (American Media)

  The Lolita Express bedroom featured a locking door. (The Mega Agency)

  Other areas of the Lolita Express looked more like a normal private jet. (The Mega Agency)

  According to Donald Trump, his friendship with Epstein stretches back to the 1980s. (The Mega Agency)

  Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Prince Andrew, Epstein, and Ghislaine (L to R) all partied together at Mar-a-Lago in 2000. (The Mega Agency)

  Victoria Roberts photographed with Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell. (Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office)

  Flight logs like these ones exposed the extent of Epstein’s relationships with the rich and powerful. (American Media)

  Epstein’s private island, Little St. James, was the setting for some of his most disturbing assaults, victims claimed. (The Mega Agency)

  Epstein’s gaudy study at his New York City mansion was exposed in the July 2019 police raid. (The Mega Agency)

  Police used a crowbar to break down the door to Epstein’s NY mansion, which was secured by a high-power deadbolt used by the Department of Defense. (The Mega Agency)

  Epstein and Prince Andrew were photographed together in Central Park in 2010, shortly after his prison stint. The prince now claims that he made the trip to end their friendship. (The Mega Agency)

  Epstein’s NY study featured a stuffed tiger. Nearby was a taxidermied poodle. (The Mega Agency)

  During the police raid on Epstein’s NY home, passerby noticed this painting of Bill Clinton in the Oval Office wearing a blue dress. A nod to Monica? (The Mega Agency)

  Epstein’s New York home was built around an imposing entrance. (The Mega Agency)

  Virginia Roberts at Zorro Ranch in New Mexico. (Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office)

  Epstein’s grim July 2019 mugshot showed how far he had fallen. (The Mega Agency)

  In this photo of Ghislaine Maxwell that surfaced after Epstein’s arrest, she was seen wearing a pinkie ring nearly identical to one worn in the past by Epstein. Was it a sign? (The Mega Agency)

  CHAPTER 9

  EPSTEIN: IN THE VICTIMS’ OWN WORDS

  Police Victim Interview A

  Police: Pepsi’s coming! First of all, I know you’re freaking out. Don’t freak out, just relax. I understand you may have information on a case that we’re looking into.

  Victim: I’m not gonna get in trouble for anything I say, right? . . .

  P: How do you make money with Jeffrey?

  V: There’s two ways. . . . Every girl that meets Jeffrey starts off with giving him a massage. The more you do with him, the more you make. Basically, if you take off your clothes, you’re gonna make more. If you let him do things to you, you’re gonna make more . . . touch you in inappropriate places . . . He uses his hands, and I wouldn’t really call it a vibrator, I guess like a massager. I did it naked, but I wouldn’t let him touch me or anything like that. My friend told me that she knew a girl that slept with him and made $1000.

  So after that he’s like, “You know what? I’ll pay you $200 for every girl that you bring to me. I don’t want you to massage me anymore, just bring girls to me.”

  So for every girl that I brought to Jeffrey, I would make $200.

  He would tell me make sure these girls know what to expect, what they want. Because when I get into that room, they need to know.

  [One girl] came to me saying she needed money. . . . I basically told her about it and she was like, “Um what do you have to do?” I told her, I was like, “The more you do, the more you make.”

  You’re gonna take your clothes off. But the more you do, the more you make.

  She gave him a massage and she basically let him like touch her, down there . . . When she got in the car I was like, “How much did you make?” and she said, $300, and I just knew right then that she did more. I asked her like, “What did you do?” She’s like, “Well I started doing the massage and my clothes came off, and he put his fingers inside me.” . . .

  P: How old were you when you were approached to go see Jeffrey?

  V: Umm . . . 16 or 17.

  P: How many girls have you brought to him?

  V: Oh . . . a lot.

  P: Who else was underage?

  V: What do you mean, like under 18? All of them.

  P: Did Jeff know anybody’s real true age, or did he care?

  V: I don’t think he cared. He told me, the younger the better. I tried to bring him a woman who was 23 and he didn’t really like it . . .

  Police Victim Interview B

  V: It was in high school, everybody was trying to make money. I had two jobs.

  P: Do you have any formal massage training?

  V: No . . . It seems really weird, the whole situation. There were more girls in the house. And then we just go upstairs it was a massage room and he came like you know and I give him a massage.

  P: Did you recall anything weird when you were going up the stairs?

  V: The pictures.

  P: Pictures of what?

  V: Naked people . . .

  V: I sit down there and she tells me, “Just wait a second.” So she comes back and we put down the little bed for the massage. And she’s like, “OK there’s some lotion and he’ll be right out.” So he comes in and says, “OK . . . just a massage.” He took his clothes off, and he was in like a towel.

  P: At any point did he ask you to remove your clothes?

  V: Yeah. And I say no. [sic]

  P: So you continue with the massage?

  V: Yeah. It was kind of weird I guess.

  P: How much did he pay you?

  V: $200.

  P: During the time that you’re massaging him on his chest, is he touching himself?

  V: Yes . . . Well you know he started getting a little excited. And he started touching himself and I told him to stop.

  P: You mean by touching himself, you mean he was masturbating?

  V: Yes. He
like had his hand under the towel. . . .

  P: He offered you more money to get naked?

  V: Yes. Well, he told me just to take my shirt off. I was just scared that he was going to do something.

  P: Did you ever get naked while doing the massages?

  V: Once, but it was in my underwear. It was never completely naked. I think there was one where I took my bra off, but that was it. He offered me more money if I have [sic] sex with him, and I said that’s never gonna happen. It’s not what I’m gonna do for money.

  P: Did he offer you more to do more things?

  V: Yah. $100 more just to take my shirt off. He tried to talk to you just to make you comfortable with the situation. Like go where are you working. How much do you make at your work. He starts saying you can make more with me. I didn’t feel like it was right.

  Police Victim Interview C

  V: She took me over to the house. She waited downstairs. I just went upstairs and gave him a massage and that was it. She’s like oh do you know do you need to make any extra money. . . . This older guy in Palm Beach, he gets a lot of massages from girls. He asked me to take my shirt off, so I took my shirt off.

  P: So, were you in a bra or were you topless?

  V: I ended up being topless, yeah . . . for a while I was doing it like once a week for a few months. Probably somewhere around there . . .

 

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